Operation n

Wikipedia is the well-known free content encyclopedia, which allows anyone in the world to edit, update and modify data. As a consequence, the information at wikipedia may be wrong and can be misleading as an education resource.

As mentioned anyone can “edit” content. Some can be done anonymously. But there have been situations where controversial content have been modified/removed anonymously. That’s where Wikiscanner comes in. This scanner can identify who/where/how often an IP address is modifying content. Conversely,
Wikileaks claim they can ensure that any content (controversial or not) can be placed anonymously and be protected.

I was interested in hearing on the radio, comments from someone at Cambridge University. Richard Clayton from lightbluetouchpaper claims that databases are too centralised. The impact of data leaks are very high as a consequence. He feels that databases have become too big (e.g. a government database has information of every site/location in one database) and making it secure is impossible. He feels the only solution is to have decentralised databases so that the impact of data leakage is reduced.

Interesting that Facebook is suing a group of Canadians for attempting compromise their site. The article isn’t clear as to how the attempt was made. But once again, you should always be careful if you want to scan your favourite site without permission…

Here’s a good wiki style guide to WEP cracking. A couple of the first WEP cracking tools came from wepcrack and airsnort. But these days, cracking algorithms have improved and demonstrated in aircrack-ptw and has been assessed at darknet. Comparisons between aircrack-ng and aircrack-ptw can be seen in this video.

Well tonight the focus is truly is on where they have cut their interest rate to 4.25% due to the credit crunch that is going around. Now that I have put into a Canadian kind of mood, eh, some interesting news has floated past from across the pond. A few Canadians have been duped out of their money by account hijackers including one for a $20k car. It looks like the UK are not the only country with information disclosure problem, Canadian passport officials had to temporarily close their website after privacy breach that leaked personal information of applicants including their driver’s license numbers, birth dates and if they owned a gun. The hole was discovered last week by an Ontario IT worker who found a simple way to cause the Passport Canada site to volunteer information about people he never even met. Altering the URL that was in the address bar of his browser while viewing his own application, he found it was possible to view the applications of others.